It’s never a good day at the office when your shares drop by 20% in a single day. However the relentless drive to produce better results quarter-on-quarter is what the US stock markets demand of publicly listed companies such as Fusion-IO. Poor results this week saw their shares punished by a [...]
As I write this post, 2012 is already 6.3% completed. So, for the remaining 93.7% of the year, what can we expect the storage themes to be? What will companies be focused on and what can we expect from the vendors?
Data Reduction
The recent flooding in Thailand has had everyone on high alert about [...]
Storagezilla calls out hard disk availability in his recent post. In fact, I discussed the subject of drive prices last week with James Carter of Touchdown PR on my way to SNW Europe. James highlighted he was seeing prices on standard drives having doubled recently.
I went back and looked [...]
At SNW Europe this week I took some time to talk to Emulex about their OneCommand product. It’s been upgraded to version 2.0, which will be the subject of a post for another day, once I’ve had a chance to install and review it.
I also discussed the core of Emulex’s business, namely HBAs (Host [...]
As the vendor who introduced flash drives into traditional arrays some 2+ years ago, we shouldn’t be surprised that EMC has released an all-flash version of its mid-range array, the VNX. The new device, codenamed VNX5500-F can support up to 250 200GB drives for a maximum all-flash capacity of 50TB. EMC don’t say, [...]
One of the attendees at TFD#8 was SolidFire Inc, another startup company focusing on selling entirely solid-state disk arrays. As you’d expect, they have their own niche and part of the market they are targeting with their all-flash drive product. So how do they compare to the competition and what’s their [...]
This week I’ll be attending IP Expo, which has probably become the UK’s biggest IT event. You can find more details out at the IP Expo Website, but if you’re quick, entry is free.
I’ll be there both days and I’m pretty busy with vendor briefings, but if you are going, drop me [...]
A clear focus of the recent Tech Field Day #8 event was the use of flash storage (or SSDs) for storage arrays or within hybrid solutions. Pure Storage offers an all flash storage array, which they say can be delivered at the same cost or less than traditional solutions. It’s a [...]
I’ve a busy few weeks planned for the end of October and November. One event I’ll be attending is SNW Europe 2011.
The event takes place in Frankfurt between 2-3 November 2011, with the strapline “Powering The Cloud” – you can find a link to the website here: http://poweringthecloud.com/home. There are actually three [...]
Following on from my previous post, I thought I would do a little more work on cloud server performance. First, it’s worth looking at the underlying hardware serving virtual servers in the cloud. As I’ve been using CentOS as the base O/S for my testing, it’s pretty simple to get a summary of [...]
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